my property or his ?

[michickenwrangler]

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Yup. We had an issue with our crazy lady neighbor last fall who insisted that she owned our driveway. This went back and forth for about a month, including me chasing her 60 yr old son off our property with a pitchfork (he insulted our rooster--called our cochin an Asian slur). DH just got fed up and surveyed the property. Turns out we own a corner of their backyard.

 

[TrystInn]

I am so tattling!

My Grandmother was absolutely crazy. When my father bought a lot to build a house on in an undeveloped neighborhood, she went out there and moved the property stakes without telling him. Queue ten years later when someone bought that lot and sued for their land back. My father ended up having to buy that sliver of land for $10,000. Twice was he paid for his 3 acres in the beginning. But now it was improved land, so he could have bought multiple additional lots for that if he'd wanted more land.

When we bought our property, I noticed that there was a sort of alley between my treeline and the neighbor on the north side of the property. I asked around and someone told me that his contractor had torn down the trees on our side of the property line and he'd had to spend a hell of a lot of money to make it up to the original owner.

Because of this, I was very prompt in hiring a contractor to put up a fence on the south side of our property (the other side) - I told our elderly neighbors that I had multiple dogs and didn't want them bothering anyone and thus, the fence. Worked like a charm.

If all you can afford to do is put a few panels in the middle where he comes in to mow, do it. A few k-bars and some wire are pretty cheap, too. The other thing you can do is ask how much you should pay him for his mowing of YOUR yard.